Good news from SCOTUS this morning, both on DOMA and California. Sometimes they get the expansion of rights right.
I wish it made me feel better about yesterday's decision...
Good news from SCOTUS this morning, both on DOMA and California. Sometimes they get the expansion of rights right.
I wish it made me feel better about yesterday's decision...
GO!
While the left hand struck down DOMA, the right hand was.....Supreme Court Bombshell: No Right to Remain Silent
To expound on the question in Scalia's dissent: why are Americans so obsessed with the institution of marriage? It's not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution or in the Bill of Rights. Is that why politicians feel safe passing laws to exclude certain groups from it? What's the next thing for us to obsess and divide ourselves over?Originally Posted by Antonin Scalia
Done.
What's next?
The members of the Supreme Court are like the umpires of the Constitution. Every single one of them has their idea of what the strike zone looks like. Doesn't matter what the strike zone actually is. It never has. That's why it works so well over time and compensates for the momentary idiocy and over-reaching incompetence of the other two branches of government.
Thankfully they at least got this one right.
About damn time. I just last week attended a civil union between two women in DC. It was FUCKING awesome to see it happen. The two had been in love for 4 or 5 years and live in a state where it wasn't legal for them to be married. The oatmeal has it correct:
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Tom Tolhurst
Blame it on computers and math.... I do the job of 20 men did 20 years ago and probably get paid the salary of 3. Therefore, I have to be better (more skilled) than the 19 men who lost. And they will have to find a job with a lower wage. With this kind of math its pretty simply to figure out why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Or really why fewer are getting richer and more are getting poorer. The Reaganonmics works but not when technology improves productivity at the cost of human labor.
the Prop 8 ruling wasn't all that great
I mean it's funny that the proponents had no grounds to appeal given that gay marriage doesn't cause them any legal injury
but they could have entertained it long enough to rule that states can't ban gay marriages
instead we'll have another 5-10 years of legal maneuvering before that inevitable conclusion is reached
It's amazing what tiny baby steps we have to take on this issue when it's such a ridiculously obvious decision. I thought this was a pretty funny piece:
DOMA: Court endorses gay marriage, but only for 30% of Americans | canada.com
The Supreme Court's decision has already stopped a number of deportations of mixed nationality married couples. And our accountant has be revisiting past tax filings for clients like it is April again.
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